It was all about the "bling bling", shiny gold chains, hip-hop dancing, caps worn backwards and baggy pants. The victorious Panthers were still rocking and rapping in celebration at the Peachtree Hotel yesterday.

"Home boyz" was the Mad Monday dress theme, beer and bourbon were the drinks of choice, happiness was the overpowering mood and the Panthers showed off their staying power as they partied on.

While most of the players were wearing fake gold chains and fake gold rings with dollar signs emblazoned on them, Ben Ross had lost a precious grand final possession, his $4000 premiership ring. In celebration, he had mixed some tunes at the Panthers Leagues club as a guest DJ, and it's there he thinks he misplaced it.

"Last night when I was DJ-ing at the club, I felt my pocket and went, 'Oh it's gone'," Ross said. "Someone said it might be at my house, but I don't know where it is."

Without the ring, he still partied on. The team's celebration schedule unfolded from the leagues club, to bed for a quick snooze, and back to Penrith Stadium for a few more drinks. And that's where the players re-enacted the already famous Scott Sattler tackle on Todd Byrne of the Roosters.

Ryan Girdler played Byrne, the premiership trophy became the ball, and Sattler pulled off his game-turning tackle again.

Nude runs were also on the cards for Joel Clinton, Martin Lang and Colin Ward, because they hadn't scored a try all season.

Penrith captain Craig Gower, sporting a puffy bruised eye from the game and a bandaid on his cheek (very much like US rapper Nelly) had chosen the theme of the day. Gower explained the hip-hop, homey theme was a "bling-bling" theme.

"It's the bling-bling. I had my clock, but I smashed it because it didn't work. Look, these blokes they've got the bling-bling," the captain said, pointing to his similarly homey-looking teammates.

In the thick of his grand final celebrations, Gower was finding it hard to comprehend he had been selected for the Kangaroos tour.

"I'm enjoying the moment, it's been a fantastic moment, and we'll just go from there," he said. "I've had a couple of hours' sleep and I'll progress through the night."

Clinton, who was also selected for the Australian representative team, wished all of his teammates could wear the green and gold.

"All of the Panthers should have been selected," Clinton said. "We are over the moon - to have a handful of Penrith players selected is the icing on the cake. It's just unreal."

Clinton also contemplated getting a permanent reminder of the win on his skin.

Timely reminder: Craig Gower wears a clock around his neck as part of the Panthers' Mad Monday celebrations. Photo: Brendan Esposito

"I think we are due for a tattoo pretty soon," he said. "I'm a bit scared of needles, but I'll see what happens when I have a few more beers. I think I'd get done drunk for drink-driving on my [push] bike. I think I'll just walk everywhere."

First-time Kangaroo Luke Lewis found out he was selected via a news bulletin on a radio station.